After his considerably light-hearted "Chocolate Wheelchair" album, Aaron Funk returns with the more serious and intricate "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding". The strange title is fitting: it's an album full of metallic, elaborate and evolving tracks, and is a lot darker and more serious than its predecessor. The opener, "Huge Chrome Peach", sets the scene with a light but unsettling synth backed by sharp drums sequenced in the complex style that has become a more

Despite his efforts to write a melodic album distanced from the beat-driven erraticism and pop culture plunderphonics that have defined much of his work to date, Aaron Funk's eleventh album as Venetian Snares sounds like something Richard D. James saved to diskette and threw in a corner. In all honesty if I had received this CD without any artwork or indication of artist name, I would have written it off as another Aphex Twin/Autechre/Mu-Ziq wannabe and thrown it in more

Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding - Planet Mu

Ok, I’m sorry but this album is my own personal nightmare sprung to audible life! I should have been forewarned by the arty strangeness of the title, but nothing prepared me for the obscurity of this sound. From Track One, ‘Huge Chrome Peach’, we are ‘treated’ to a strange jingle-jangle of irritating noise. With no melody to speak of, no guitars, drums or vocals, I’m finding it difficult to find any positive points on this album. It’s sound is more

VENETIAN SNARES - Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding

aving released just under a squillion albums in 2004 alone, Venetian Snares’ Aaron Funk not so much returns as bursts in through the back door, helps himself to whatever’s in the fridge, jams your toilet up with bog roll and ends up dogging your bird while you look on in disbelief. It is this kind of arrogance that makes him so obnoxiously compelling, well, to begin with at least. The last album, Chocolate Wheelchair, saw Funk effortlessly firing off more